Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One.

If you somehow got stuck in a situation (lol) and had to spend the rest of your life completely by yourself, all alone, on a desert island ... and, as part of your situation you only got to choose one album to spend the entire rest of your life with.

Let’s say, some weird circumstance, and you also had at your complete disposal the system of your dreams, that you had assembled thru the years. And thank goodness you were a prepper and you thought ahead to install a solar power system, so power would never be a problem either.

Kind of like Tom Hanks on that island, except instead of a just a soccer ball, you had your dream stereo setup and one album only.

One album and that’s it. Got to pick one. Not necesssarily your all time favorite album, just one you could live with for the rest of your life.

Is there any album that just completely does it for ya, on that level?

I’ll kick things off by sharing mine: Steely Dan, Aja

tunefuldude12-03-2023 1:46am

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doyle3433 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 315 posts 12-11-2023 at 03:52pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Miles Davis Sketches of Spain Steely Dan it's a toss up. Gaucho or Aja
ellajeanelle Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 386 posts 12-11-2023 at 06:36pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Just one album no. If given only one band, it would be Tangerine Dream.
secret_mission_1964 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 17 posts 12-11-2023 at 08:23pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete First Van Halen album.
fsonicsmith Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 957 posts 12-11-2023 at 09:07pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete These recurring threads are silly and fun at the same time. Aja? Walter Becker kept his platinum award in the outhouse to his Hawaii studio. And for good reason. It does not hold up. Add to that the simple fact that Donald Fagan was an anal-compulsive in the studio and that the pursuit of perfect musicianship from a technical perspective killed off the life of what could have been monumental recordings. I am a Dan-fan and for me Countdown to Ecstasy is their best, but it could have been so much better if Fagen had not obsessed over every aspect of the band's playing, mixdown, and production. The easy picks imho are Kind of Blue and Revolver. But being human I have sentimental favorites and for me they are ZZ's Tres Hombres and Alejandro's Real Animal. And for something no one or almost no one knows about there is Chuck Prophet's Age of Miracles and Southern Country on the Skids' Dirt Track Date.
ezwind Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 78 posts 12-12-2023 at 03:51am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete So I started by coming up with a short list of possible choices and came up with these, sticking with the heavyweights: Grateful Dead - Live Dead OR Europe 72 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks OR Blonde on Blonde OR Live at Royal Albert Hall The Beatles - Abbey Road OR The White Album Weather Report - Heavy Weather Miles Davis - Bitches Brew What it finally came down to was that I couldn't bear a life without Garcia, so my pick is Europe 72. I'm not sure why but I decided to exclude the Dick's Picks series and bootlegs in general; probably would have made the choice much harder than it already was.